Trussman posted:"Emperor of the North" is my favorite railroad movie.
I just found this one about the Big Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8gnK9JaU7Y
I have to chuckle on how an early NBC TV drama from the Lucky Strike Theater is now an "educational documentary."
I still have this on VHS from the olden days of 1997, bought it from Pentrex. Doesn't appear to be in their catalog anymore.
Rusty
Another vote for Emperor of the North! How could you go wrong with both Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine, two masters of their craft! And they both had comedic chops as well in Cat Ballou and McHale's Navy respectively!
The Little known and a good storyline with plenty of train and action. Ken Moore and Lauren Bacall.
Click on link below. You can even watch the full movie on YouTube for free.
Breakheart Pass starring the inimitable and intimidating Charles Bronson and also his wife, Jill Ireland. A film critic once described Bronson as a "housebroken Attila the Hun" for his "tough guy" rolls!
Seacoast posted:The Little known and a good storyline with plenty of train and action. Ken Moore and Lauren Bacall.
Click on link below. You can even watch the full movie on YouTube for free.
Also known as "Flame over India."
Rusty
Seacoast posted:The Little known and a good storyline with plenty of train and action. Ken Moore and Lauren Bacall.
Click on link below. You can even watch the full movie on YouTube for free.
This is the movie I was referring to in a previous post about a train movie with Bogey. This is a good movie.
balidas posted:Seacoast posted:The Little known and a good storyline with plenty of train and action. Ken Moore and Lauren Bacall.
Click on link below. You can even watch the full movie on YouTube for free.
This is the movie I was referring to in a previous post about a train movie with Bogey. This is a good movie.
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Bogey is nowhere to be found in the cast & crew of North West Frontier.
I can't think of any "train movie" Humphrey Bogart starred in.
Rusty
No he's not in this or any other train movie but Lauren Bacall is so anytime I see Lauren Bacall I think of Bogie.
Big_Boy_4005 posted:Rusty Traque posted:wjstix posted:As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
Bingo.
The laws of physics and gravity wouldn't allow it. Swell melodrama, bad science.
Rusty
I agree, once the science goes wrong, the movie is a total loss.
I didn't see any mention of Switchback with Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid. Good train scenes in that one.
Another is Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Steven Seagal.
Those don't make my top 5, but they are worth noting.
For me it's Emperor of The North, The Train, Von Ryan's Express.
I liked Switchback as well. Not great, but very good, as you say. I thought it told the story of itinerant railroad men quite well.
Has anyone noticed a pattern among the movies that several participants have nominated as the all-time greatest train feature? Films including Breakheart Pass, Emperor of the North, Unstoppable and Once Upon a Time in the West all open with an approaching train, and end with a scene of the same train, although usually several days later. The Train doesn't include railroad images in the opening scene because the art theft theme has to be established, but the trainload of stolen paintings figures into the plot early enough to fit this pattern. An exception may be Bad Day at Black Rock where the same Southern Pacific Daylight train appears in the opening and closing scenes, but no time in between.
Gil Hulin
Still Polar Express For me. The little o gauge layout under the tree at the end made me smile. It's attention to detail that seals the deal for me.
There is a western titled "Denver and Rio Grande". It is a story about fighting for right of way between the D&RG and the ATSF back in the day. This movie was made in the early 50's and was true to events as they really happened. The Santa Fe did not seem to fare well as to it's business practices,ha,ha.
Entertaining train movie and western.
Norm
Norm posted:There is a western titled "Denver and Rio Grande". It is a story about fighting for right of way between the D&RG and the ATSF back in the day. This movie was made in the early 50's and was true to events as they really happened. The Santa Fe did not seem to fare well as to it's business practices,ha,ha.
Entertaining train movie and western.
Norm
The other side of the coin: Santa Fe (1951) Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland. The D&RGW is the"bad guy" in this one...
From IMDb:
After the Civil War four brothers who fought for the South head west. Yanks are building the Santa Fe Railroad and one of the brothers joins them. The other three still hold their hatred of the North and join up with those trying to stop the railroad's completion. The one brother unsuccessfully tries to keep the other brothers out of trouble but eventually has to join the posse that is after them.
Rusty
Norm posted:There is a western titled "Denver and Rio Grande". It is a story about fighting for right of way between the D&RG and the ATSF back in the day. This movie was made in the early 50's and was true to events as they really happened. The Santa Fe did not seem to fare well as to it's business practices,ha,ha.
Entertaining train movie and western.
Norm
One my favorites Paul Fix is also in it as Monahan the train engineer.
Hello friends,
I don't want to drive this train too far off topic, and I agree with most of the top picks such as "The Train" and "Breakheart Pass," but since we have also cited such movies as " Le Bête Humaine" and the "Polar Express," I would like to mention three of the many movies featuring trains that are particularly high on my list. I first saw these movies years ago, and I believe they actually influenced the direction taken by my interest in toy trains. These films were:
Bad Day at Black Rock
Toccata for Toy Trains
Pacific 231
Gil has already mentioned "Bad Day at Black Rock" above. It is a great movie with a stellar cast, but the streamliners that open and close the movie have stuck with me since first seeing the film on the recommendation of my Dad who grew up in SP country (Oregon) and who himself was a veteran of WW2. I have since learned, of course, that FT locos did not pull Daylight streamlined cars, that the paint scheme of the A and B units had not yet been used by the SP in late 1945 when the movie is set and that the horn blast and hand signals used during the sequences were all wrong, but seeing that relatively short, streamlined passenger train pull up to a tiny station in a tiny town, looked like a scene right out of my various floor layouts that I imagined it to be as a kid.
Not long after getting out my old toy trains and taking my first tentative steps to becoming a "toy train collector," I came across a VHS video of "Toccata for Toy Trains" (This was well before the advent of the internet and YouTube!) This well known, short 1957 film by Charles and Ray Eames makes creative use of antique toy trains and other trains set to a wonderful score by the incomparable Elmer Bernstein. Again, I found myself drawn into the world of toy trains as they relate to the larger world, not always as accurate scale miniatures, but also as representing a world seen through the eyes of a child and toys of our youth. All this set to a great score.
On the same VHS tape as the Eames film was the even shorter French film "Pacific 231." Like the train scenes from the 1938 movie "Le Bête Humaine" previously mentioned on this topic, the film "Pacific 231" shows big steam railroading in France in 1949 set to the music of a 1923 composition by Arthur Honegger of the same name. The filmmaker used innovative camera work along with expert editing to create a piece that not only documents the operation of a powerful steam locomotive, but also seamlessly follows the music to the point that one could believe that the music was actually written to score the film.
Any time I can combine good filmmaking, great music and trains, both real and toy, is a win, win, win for me.
Cheers!
Alan
The Great Train Robbery: a Sean Connery movie that has great scenes featuring a preserved Irish 0-6-0 dressed up to look like a period 2-2-2.
https://www.steamtrainsireland...-collection/10/no184
If you like handcars "They Came To Cordura" with Gary Cooper.
John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson "The Train Robbers" 1973
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, baby!
Seacoast posted:Norm posted:There is a western titled "Denver and Rio Grande". It is a story about fighting for right of way between the D&RG and the ATSF back in the day. This movie was made in the early 50's and was true to events as they really happened. The Santa Fe did not seem to fare well as to it's business practices,ha,ha.
Entertaining train movie and western.
Norm
One my favorites Paul Fix is also in it as Monahan the train engineer.
I always get a kick during the head on collision that the tenders exploded...
Rusty
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